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Prom in Russia: history.
Graduation ball is an event significant for every student. Indeed, in addition to parting with school, on this day there is a farewell to childhood. Proms are held all over the world, and each country has its own traditions associated with them. We decided to remember how graduation appeared in our country.
Graduation balls in Russia began to be held under Peter I. The first graduates who celebrated the end of their studies on a grand scale were students of the School of Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Moscow. Pupils of the Corps of Pages were especially inventive during the celebration: especially for the graduation ball, the pupils ordered rings with the same symbol for themselves. This allowed pages, graduates different years to get to know each other. By the way, at first girls were not allowed on such evenings. The emergence of young noblewomen became possible only in the 19th century. But the "bringing out" of the girls into the world was an exclusively commercial enterprise - the parents were looking for gentlemen for young beauties.
After the 1917 revolution, the situation changed dramatically. Graduation balls were banned as a bourgeois pastime and a relic of the past. But in the mid-1930s graduations at schools resumed. Of course, there was no trace of the former splendor of the outfits and the luxury of the halls. Instead, parting speeches became obligatory: junkers and coquettes were replaced by Komsomol members and Komsomol members. But still they could not do without dancing: in addition to classical waltzes, even bourgeois foxtrots and Charlestons were performed.
The tradition of graduation balls was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. On Saturday evening, June 22, 1941, graduation parties were held in many schools and colleges in the country. The young men and girls were carelessly circling in a waltz, and the very next day many of them put on their overcoats and went to the front. In the post-war years, graduation balls began to look like modern farewells school life. There was a tradition to walk the class until dawn.
In the 70s there was a revolution in attitudes towards graduation. The girls wanted to outshine all their friends: they put on previously forbidden mini-skirts, did chemistry and make-up (at that time they had already stopped expelling them from the ball for cosmetics). For parents, the holiday began to cost a pretty penny. They spent up to 45 rubles on graduation - the money was unrealistic at that time!
With the opening of the Iron Curtain, the tradition of celebrating the holiday on a grand scale returned to Russia again. In the 90s, it was a special chic to meet a new milestone in life on the deck of a pleasure boat rented by my parents. The sounds of the waltz were replaced by the rhythms of modern music.
Today, parents spend not 45 rubles, but several thousand on graduation parties. A dress, a hairstyle, a restaurant, a limousine - you won't surprise anyone with this. Graduates book an evening not only in cafes and bars, but also rent entire nightclubs, invite fashionable DJs and all kinds of exotic shows. After all, the main thing is that graduation is remembered for a lifetime!
Graduation History
Graduation balls in Russia began to be held under Peter I. The first graduates who celebrated the end of their studies on a grand scale were students of the School of Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Moscow. Pupils of the Corps of Pages were especially inventive during the celebration: especially for the graduation ball, the pupils ordered rings with the same symbol for themselves. This allowed the pages, graduates of different years, to recognize each other. By the way, at first girls were not allowed on such evenings. The emergence of young noblewomen became possible only in the 19th century. But the "bringing out" of the girls into the world was an exclusively commercial enterprise - the parents were looking for gentlemen for young beauties.
After the 1917 revolution, the situation changed dramatically. Graduation balls were banned as a bourgeois pastime and a relic of the past. But in the mid-1930s graduations at schools resumed. Of course, there was no trace of the former splendor of the outfits and the luxury of the halls. Instead, parting speeches became obligatory: junkers and coquettes were replaced by Komsomol members and Komsomol members. But still they could not do without dancing: in addition to classical waltzes, even bourgeois foxtrots and Charlestons were performed.
The tradition of graduation balls was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. On Saturday evening, June 22, 1941, graduation parties were held in many schools and colleges in the country. The young men and girls were carelessly circling in a waltz, and the very next day many of them put on their overcoats and went to the front. In the post-war years, graduation balls began to resemble the modern farewell to school life. There was a tradition to walk the class until dawn.
In the 70s there was a revolution in attitudes towards graduation. The girls wanted to outshine all their friends: they put on previously forbidden mini-skirts, did chemistry and make-up (at that time they had already stopped expelling them from the ball for cosmetics). For parents, the holiday began to cost a pretty penny. They spent up to 45 rubles on graduation - the money was unrealistic at that time!
With the opening of the Iron Curtain, the tradition of celebrating the holiday on a grand scale returned to Russia again. In the 90s, it was a special chic to meet a new milestone in life on the deck of a pleasure boat rented by my parents. The sounds of the waltz were replaced by the rhythms of modern music.
Today, parents spend not 45 rubles, but several thousand on graduation parties. A dress, a hairstyle, a restaurant, a limousine - you won't surprise anyone with this. Graduates book an evening not only in cafes and bars, but also rent entire nightclubs, invite fashionable DJs and all kinds of exotic shows. After all, the main thing is that graduation is remembered for a lifetime!
Four candid stories about the main school evening.
Text: Victoria Pavlenko, Yulia Shakirova, Victoria Malyarova, Anastasia Strochilina June 22, 2018
Vika, 22 years old
That was six years ago, and I still remember every second of that exciting day. Everything went wrong from the very beginning - I overslept. Without having breakfast and without even washing my face, I ran as fast as I could to the hairdresser's, which, by great luck, I managed to sign up for 2 (!) Months before day X. And now I fly into the salon like a superman, shouting "I did it!" and I see ... That my master is doing a haircut for another girl. When I ask her about WTF in general, she tells me with a serene air that she thought I would not come, and decided to take another client. Here is mine wonderful mom, thanks to which I survived the whole event, turns on the dragon mode and practically demolishes the entire salon with its roar (sorry, mom).
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This magically affects everyone, and after 10 minutes I find myself in the chair of another master. She asks: "What do you want?" I speak: " Hollywood curls. I'm Marilyn Monroe today." “OK,” she says, and turns me away from the mirror. As she twists my hair, I think about how the sequins on the chest of my dress will sparkle, and the white skirt will flutter in the wind, just like in everything famous scene. I will wave my elastic curls and smile with scarlet lips. My blissful reflections are interrupted by the master's voice: “That's it, one is ready, the next!”
I turn to the mirror and sit back in my chair.
"Oh gods, I'm a poodle. No, Shaun the Sheep. But no, still a poodle. Directly Artaud, like Kuprin. I myself don’t notice how a mean and very salty tear flows down my cheek, and my mother pulls my hand with the words: “Well, nothing, in 10 years you won’t remember.” Further the road to the house, as if in a fog. For clarity, I rode in a trolleybus in my grandfather's baseball cap. And yet she still got sidelong glances. When I entered the house, I was attacked by my overly punctual dad in a tuxedo and Hugo Boss Boss Bottled. With the words "Oh, you decided to be a corrugated chip!" (here I start to sob) and "We're leaving in 10 minutes, we're already late" (I'm already sobbing), he leaves to drive the car to the entrance. I frantically fit into the dress, traditionally tear off the tights, then the second ones, then I decide that it was not in vain that I shaved my legs with a razor for 1000 rubles, and confidently go to make up with bare legs.
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Dad calls and angrily says that he is already waiting for an extra 5 minutes. Mom grabs me in one hand, in the other - a cosmetic bag and forcibly drags me down the stairs. I get wedged, the TP syndrome turns on (a typical paranoid, in fact, and not what you thought there), I shout something from the series “I won’t go anywhere!”, “I’ll stay at home!”, “Everyone will finger me poke”, “Why do I need all this?!”, “Why am I so ugly?!”. Since we lived on the 5th floor of a building without an elevator, and my suffering phrases ended on the third, I had to repeat the same thing two more times. At the entrance, dad gave me a look like “Girls, always senseless and merciless” and put me in the car. I had to put on makeup in the 10 minutes that separated our house and my school. And everything would be fine if I: a) knew how to make up, b) there weren’t 100,500 lying policemen on the road. But these two things provided me with a bow a la " Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman before meeting Richard Gere." Well, with my curls, it looked quite convincing. I entered the school door with my head held high and a damp napkin on my face, with which my mother diligently wiped off my red lipstick, smeared on my cheeks and chin. And then I saw my friends. And you know, like in the movie, everything around was lit up with a warm heavenly glow. I realized that I was at home. Well, how else to call a place where you are loved and happy to see, even when you are a panda Joker. We started hugging, joking and taking endless pictures.
My best friend said that I was always super, and the nasty nerve knot in my stomach immediately untied.
And then everything started at an incredible speed: the presentation of diplomas, a gala dinner, the first stain on the dress, hugs. And then it was time for the disco. And it was then that the event to which my story is dedicated took place. My first love dance. Yes, I know what you will say: “Oh, think about it, dance. Now, if you kissed ... ". But here is something else. After all, I have not yet had time to confess to you that my biggest school love was... my teacher. And although I doubt that he reads the ELLE Girl website, just in case, I will not describe him in detail. I can only say that he was very young, aristocratic, pumped up (oh, those biceps on his hands!) And just terribly smart. I've been crushing on him since fifth grade (from the very moment he first walked into our classroom saying, "Gentlemen, please shut up").
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Everything was just right: slow motion, a beam of light and Sarah Connor in the background. And 7 years later, to this very Just One Last Dance, he invited me to a slow dance at my last school disco. Instead of agreeing, I fell on his shoulder. And those three minutes lasted forever. He spoke to me about the importance of the future, about the difficulty of choosing a profession, and how he had always been fascinated by my writings. But I didn’t listen and just melted, spreading over his shoulder and muscular chest. A thousand pictures a second flashed through my head: here I am graduating from university, and he gives me flowers; and here we stand at the altar and swear to each other in eternal love; and now we're at a high school reunion 10 years after high school, we have 30 kids, and everyone envy us. My dreams were shattered by the voice of the class girl, who yelled that we were moving out of school to meet the dawn on Sparrow Hills. And then my fairy tale ended. Just like Cinderella: the clock struck midnight, it was necessary to return to reality. I thanked him, kissed him on the cheek, and slipped out into the street.
When the sun rose and illuminated Moscow State University, which I so dreamed of entering (and now, by the way, I graduated), I realized that a completely different, new and so interesting life awaits me.
And that school is really over. And also that most of these people, who are now giggling strangely and staggering drunkenly, I see for the last time. Terrible sentimentality washed over me, and I ran to hug everyone in a row. And then they took us home. We are with best friend for a long time they sat on the steps at my entrance and recalled the most enchanting moments of these 10 years. And when the sleepy neighbors slowly began to crawl out to work, we said goodbye and vowed to be friends forever. And we kept our promise - even though we now see each other at best once every three months, we still adore each other.
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I remember my graduation party with a smile and warmth every year when I see smart and smart people everywhere. handsome boys and girls with graduation ribbons at the end of June. I still remember my beloved teacher, although I have not seen him since. They say he went bald, got fat and got married. Well, even so, in my memory he is forever alone, young and beautiful. And gallantly holds out his hand to me, inviting me to dance.
Julia, 22 years old
Graduation is the main event of the entire school time. It does not suddenly burst into our lives: we are waiting for it, preparing, anticipating it. Every girl literally from the first grade dreams of a ball, of a magnificent dress, of enthusiastic looks directed at her, dreams of turning into a crowned lady at least for one evening. Everyone is happy and sad at the same time - after all, graduation is not only a bright, but also a sad holiday. But not for me! Graduation was not easy for me bright holiday he was the most bright holiday for my entire high school life! Ask why? Because in 11 years I changed 4 schools, and relations with classmates did not really develop. Because I was not afraid to leave the past and boldly walk towards the future, however, just like now!
I dreamed of leaving school life in the past, and graduation was a great end to it.
Preparing for the graduation ball did not take me a lot of time and nerve cells, since I thought over my image in advance, which included Nice dress floor-length powder-colored and the most uncomfortable shoes in the world, but insanely chic shoes. On X day, when the beauty stylist worked on my hair and make-up, when I was already running out of the house all dressed up, I heard my mother’s loud “Stop!”. “Yul, please take your ballet flats with you. Believe me, they will come in handy." What?! Ballet shoes?! How I did not want to spoil the image with ballet shoes, and even a bag in which I had to carry them. Then I decided for myself that, they say, I am strong and will never take off my heels! Oh how wrong I was...
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The presentation of certificates is over, the last general photo has been taken, and now the most long-awaited moment has come for me - we are going to the club! We celebrated our graduation together with several other schools in the club "B1 Maximum" now "Yotaspace". What could be better than a concert club to celebrate the end of school life?! :) Upon arrival at the club, I thought that I would immediately find myself in the hall, but no such luck! We had to stand in a long queue to get inside. It was at that moment that the ballet flats that were in the bag began to beckon me, but I heroically defended myself on my heels all this time! Once inside, I played the hero for about an hour, until I realized that it would be easier to “light on the dance floor” in ballet shoes. When I finally changed my shoes, there was only one thought in my head: “OMG! Mom, thank you! And after that, I could calmly rock along with everyone to the track “From the Window” by Noise Ms, while the girls in “the most uncomfortable in the world, but insanely chic shoes” sat with sour faces at the table. I will never forget my graduation.
The realization that everything was left behind, and incredible changes in life awaited ahead, excited me the whole graduation party!
My heart wanted a change! And despite the fact that all night of the prom I still "killed" my legs, got my dress dirty (sitting on the sofa, on which someone forgot a chocolate cake), ruined an expensive clutch by dousing it with champagne, I had a great time and forever told the school "Bye, Bye".
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Conclusion: Graduation party is exactly the day when you have every right to have fun from the heart with your classmates without getting a reprimand from the class teacher. And so that nothing bothers you, take a change of shoes with you, in which you will spend the whole night and meet the dawn. Try to enjoy this day to the maximum, because you will remember it for the rest of your life.
P.S. And listen to your mother, she definitely won’t advise bad things;)
Lisa, 21
I was in love with my classmate for three years. We practically did not communicate, only sometimes looked at each other during the break. I was sad at the thought that school would end and I would never talk to my love. Like all girls, I hoped that something would happen at prom that would change my life. And I was not mistaken.
Graduation ball is an event significant for every student. And indeed, in addition to parting with school, on this day there is a farewell to childhood. Graduation parties are held all over the world, and each country has its own traditions associated with them. And how did graduation appear in our country, how was it celebrated before and now?
The tradition of holding graduation balls is very rich. Graduation balls in Russia began to be held under Peter I. The first graduates who celebrated the end of their studies on a grand scale were students of the School of Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Moscow. Pupils of the Corps of Pages were especially inventive during the celebration: especially for the graduation ball, the pupils ordered rings with the same symbol for themselves. This allowed the pages, graduates of different years, to recognize each other.
Perhaps the most famous "brotherhood" of graduates is Pushkin's lyceum friends, about whom many poems have been composed. But earlier, even before Pushkin's time, proms were an exclusively male privilege. At first, girls were not allowed on such evenings. The emergence of young noblewomen became possible only in the 19th century. But the "bringing out" of the girls into the world was an exclusively commercial enterprise - the parents were looking for gentlemen for young beauties.
After the 1917 revolution, the situation changed dramatically. Graduation balls were banned as a bourgeois pastime and a relic of the past. But in the mid-1930s graduations at schools resumed. Of course, there was no trace of the former splendor of the outfits and the luxury of the halls. Instead, parting speeches became obligatory, junkers and coquettes were replaced by Komsomol members and Komsomol members. But still they could not do without dancing: in addition to classical waltzes, even bourgeois foxtrots and Charlestons were performed.
The tradition of graduation balls was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. On Saturday evening, June 22, 1941, graduation parties were held in many schools and colleges in the country. The young men and girls were carelessly circling in a waltz, and the very next day many of them put on their overcoats and went to the front. In the post-war years, graduation balls began to resemble the modern farewell to school life. There was a tradition to walk the class until dawn.
In the 1970s, there was a coup about prom. The girls wanted to outshine all their friends. They put on previously forbidden mini-skirts, did chemistry and makeup (at that time they had already stopped expelling them from the ball for cosmetics). For parents, the holiday began to cost a pretty penny. They spent up to 45 rubles on graduation - the money was unrealistic at that time!
With the opening of the Iron Curtain, the tradition of celebrating the holiday on a grand scale returned to Russia again. In the 90s, it was a special chic to meet a new milestone in life on the deck of a pleasure boat rented by my parents. The sounds of the waltz were replaced by the rhythms of modern music.
Today, parents spend not 45 rubles, but several thousand on graduation parties. A dress, a hairstyle is a must, because in some schools and lyceums they choose the "Queen of the Ball" and the "King of the Ball". A restaurant, a limousine, and in St. Petersburg a night tour "on boats" are also necessary attributes. Graduates book an evening not only in cafes and bars, but also rent entire nightclubs, invite fashionable DJs and all kinds of exotic shows. After all, the main thing is that graduation is remembered for a lifetime!
Graduation ball is the brightest event that any student is looking forward to, because in addition to saying goodbye to school, on this day he says goodbye to childhood and enters adulthood. Graduation parties from time immemorial were held beautifully, solemnly and on a large scale, because every effort was made to ensure that graduates remember such a wonderful day for the rest of their lives.
history of the holiday
Graduations were held during the reign of Peter l. The first graduates were students of the School of Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in Moscow. Pupils of the Corps of Pages were inventive in holding the event. They ordered rings from the masters, on which symbols were applied, which were a specific sign. This sign helped to recognize each other after many years at a meeting. It should be noted that the fair sex could not initially be present at such a holiday, that is, a kind of discrimination reigned. The appearance of noblewomen at such a holiday became possible only in the 19th century, but going out "into the light" was a kind of bride-to-be - parents tried to find gentlemen for their daughters.
The amazing tradition of holding graduations was interrupted in 1917, but already in the 30s it was resumed, but, of course, there was no trace of the previous scale. Now, the fiery speeches of teachers have become an indispensable attribute, who brought schoolchildren into life, who are still remembered as first-graders, but it should be noted.
The tradition of holding proms was interrupted in the Great Patriotic War. On Saturday, June 22, 1941, schoolchildren celebrated the end of school. Many youths who were dressed in beautiful costumes, and the girls in evening dresses already in the morning went to the front, to fight for their country. After the war, proms began to pass as a farewell to a carefree life. There was a wonderful tradition, the whole class to meet the dawn on the embankment of the city.
In the 70s, proms suffered another revolution. Instead of beautiful evening dresses, came more recently banned mini-skirts, bright makeup and chemistry, because the main goal of the graduates was not to beautifully say goodbye to school time, but to outshine your friends and become the most beautiful. Parents, as a rule, the organization of such a holiday cost a large amount, because in order to organize beautiful holiday they had to spend up to 45 rubles - and at that time this money was simply sky-high for most families.
In the 90s, it was chic to hold a graduation on a ship, which was rented for graduates by parents. On the deck, a table was laid with a lot of treats, and live music or a collection of favorite songs were chosen as musical accompaniment. The musical accompaniment of the event also changed, because the beautiful waltz was replaced by youth music.
Today, on the organization of graduation for their children, parents no longer spend 45 rubles, but several thousand rubles. Pretty haircut, stylish clothes, shoes, payment for the institution where the celebration will take place and a limousine that will drive the graduates to banquet hall, flies into a tidy sum. In addition, it is customary for many schools to give memorable gifts from the whole class for graduation, and they, as a rule, also cost a lot of money.
How is graduation today?
Graduation is a kind of reward for students who have graduated educational institution and wish to celebrate such a joyful holiday "on a grand scale."
The organization of graduation, today, should be approached in advance, because many graduates book institutions for six months, pay for the reservation, and therefore, if you do not take care of choosing a place in advance, then it may simply not be possible to find it.
Modern youth makes great efforts to ensure that their holiday is fun, non-standard and memorable for a lifetime, because they perceive graduation from school as a kind of end to torment, not taking into account that they have an adult life ahead of them, which is by no means carefree.
Many students in life will have another graduation in honor of the completion of higher education completion. It should be noted that not everyone goes to the institute for one reason or another, so many parents and their beloved children try to organize a creative, large-scale, beautiful, cheerful and filled with an incredible atmosphere graduation, which will be remembered as one of the best days.
The tradition of graduating at their home school has already faded into the background, because many graduates choose a cafe, restaurant, nightclub, which is rented for the whole night, or a ship, where you can lay a chic table on the deck and relax with live music as a venue for such a holiday. .
It is customary to decorate the room in which the celebration will take place beautifully and in an original way with the help of beautiful arches made of balloons, colors or fabrics. In addition, tables are set, on which, in addition to delicious dishes, sweets and juice, there are also alcoholic drinks.
On such a day, limousines that perform a given route or minibuses, which can comfortably accommodate graduates, parents and teachers, act as a vehicle on such a day.
In most cases, parents and teachers are present at the graduation, but they only sit at the same table with the graduates, but at a separate table or in different rooms so as not to embarrass the youth.
To create a cheerful atmosphere, it is customary to invite a host who will develop the program of the evening and coordinate it with the main organizer of the evening. The host also coordinates all competitions in advance so as not to put students and invited parents and teachers in an awkward position. The highlight of the evening can be a guest star who will perform your favorite youth songs or a show program.
It is customary to invite a videographer and photographer to the holiday, who will give holiday photographs and a video recording that graduates will view and remember themselves.
The evening ends, as a rule, with festive fireworks on the street late in the evening, when darkness reigns on the street, or by launching burning balls.
There is another scenario, but it is chosen by those graduates who do not like the official parts of the event and prefer to relax without their own parents, who sometimes do not allow them to spend time as they would like.
Since the graduation party falls in the summer, very often graduates prefer to rent pavilions in the forest, where they can organize barbecues and a delicious table. Some people prefer to rent apartments, dachas or country houses for several days, where they can have fun in company and spend the night in rooms.
There are also classes where students are one big friendly company that prefers to relax away from their parents. Of course, this option to celebrate is quite expensive, but many children prefer to choose it: they go to the warm side, where they can have fun, swim and visit all the local entertainment venues.
